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NEW GENERATIONS
12 Issue 566. October 2014
Young Rotarian building
a brighter future
Honorary Rotarian of the Rotary Club of Scarborough, WA, Sian
White, has devoted much of her young life to human rights, social
justice, reconciliation and the environment and she doesn’t appear
to be slowing down any time soon.
At 27, Sian White was awarded an OAM in the Australia
Day 2014 Honours List for service to international relations,
particularly through tuberculosis prevention programs in
the Pacific.
Much of Sian’s young life has been involved with
numerous humanitarian causes in Australia and around
the world, raising over $260,000 for many charities and
emergency relief appeals.
Sian has been an active member or volunteer with
27 organisations and is a passionate campaigner for
basic human rights, social justice, reconciliation and the
environment, including extensive work with the indigenous
people of WA, facilitating a range of activities
and long-term community projects.
Sian became a Paul Harris Fellow
at age 15, an Honorary Rotarian of
the Rotary Club of Scarborough,
WA, and also Young Australian
of the Year for Community Service
in the same year. Sian carried the
Olympic Torch in 2000 and in 2004
was selected by the Rotary Club
of Midland, WA, to go on a Rotary
Youth Exchange to Norway for a year.
Sian has also raised enough funding
for over 300 “Wheelchairs for Kids”
in need around the world.
At 21, Sian started a four-
year project in India to
build two hostels for blind,
deaf and dumb children,
contacting the Rotary clubs
of Scarborough, WA, and
Udaipur, India, for matching
grants. A third project was
equipping a vocational training centre with educational
classes, workshops and retail outlets for disabled
young people.
As a delegate for many leadership conferences and
humanitarian causes, Sian has travelled to Cambodia,
Korea, Hong Kong, Fiji and the USA. More recently she
went to Mongolia and Nepal for research programs.
Sian worked in Papua New Guinea for four years as
project manager for the National Tuberculosis Program and
is now doing research at London University into evolutionary
and social motivators of hygiene and sanitation behaviour
in Asia and Africa. 
Young humanitarian Sian White with Alexander Downer at
Australia House in London, where she currently lives.
Sian at the official opening of
the hostels for blind, deaf and
dumb children in India.